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“Two people, two hands, and two songs, in this case "Big Shot" and "Bette Davis Eyes." The lyrics of the two songs provided no commentary, honest or ironic, on the proceedings. They were merely ther...”
“Comments are free but facts are sacred.”
“The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English mu...”
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
“A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women. Women, whatever a few male songs and satires may say to the contrary, are more natural...”
“the whole of Victorian literature done up in grey paper & neatly tied with string”
“No comment" is a comment so I never really understood.”
“When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses. I was simple-minded enough to believe they meant what...”
“The world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary. The problem is deciding which is which.”
“Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.”
“When I was a youngster, all the progressive people were saying, “Why all this prudery? Let us treat sex just as we treat all our other impulses.” I was simple-minded enough to believe they meant wh...”